Today, in 2010, only a decade after the inauguration of the feared millennium, your CarolinaCard doesn’t work off campus, Cocky’s Caravan absorbs the majority of your student fee and the Thomson Student Health Center is an eyesore rivaling the scoreboard after a Clemson football game.

You know that hot, hippie chick from oceanography? The one with the long blonde hair and big blue eyes? Guess what? She’s not there for the free trip to the beach, and she’s definitely not going to go out with you if she finds that you only write on the front of your notebook paper. So, listen up, you resource-depleting nature-hater! I’ve got a temporary and deceitful solution to your planet-killing problem.

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Asking if our University is spending too much on going green is like asking if UNICEF is spending too much on saving children. This is one of those situations where one must look at the bigger picture. By investing money in green initiatives now, our school is taking early steps to ensure that our world will continue to be a place in which we can comfortably live. The preservation of our environment and its resources determines the future survival of all living things including plants, humans and animals. Going green not only helps save energy and natural resources, it also benefits the environment by reducing water, air and ground pollution among many other things.